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Mirabel Osler (1925 - 20 October, 2016) was an
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''A Gentle Plea for Chaos'' (1989), based on her experiences in her garden in
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Biography

Mirabel was born Mirabel E E Birnstingl in 1925 in London. She was the daughter of Harry Joseph Birnstingl and Phyllis Taylor Reid. Her stepfather was the author and journalist Aylmer Vallance. She married Michael Julian Osler on 5 April 1951 and they lived in
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and Corfu before returning to England to live in
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. Michael died on 26 April 1989. They had one son and two daughters (the youngest, Sureen, was adopted). She wrote regularly for the garden magazine ''Hortus''. She died in Hereford County Hospital on 20 October 2016 aged 91.


Awards

* Mirabel won the Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award in 1988. * Mirabel won the Journalist of the Year Award from the Garden Writers Guild in 2003


Bibliography

*Osler, M.; ''A Gentle Plea for Chaos: the Enchantment of Gardening'' 1989,
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*—, ''The Garden Bench'' 1991,
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*—, ''In the Eye of the Garden'' 1993,
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*—, ''The Garden Wall'' 1993,
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*—, ''A spoon with every course: in search of the legendary food of France'' 1996,
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*—, ''A Breath From Elsewhere: Musings on Gardens'' 1998,
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: Bloomsbury


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